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O NE IN 10 men experience depression or anxiety but only about half ever receive treatment. Why? Despite the milestones made to address men’s mental health, the stigma of openly talking about mental health still exists.
“We’ve all been trained to believe that we have to be strong and that depression is not part of our experience,” says Dan Iosifescu, MD , psychiatrist at NYU Langone Health. “That if we had been tough, this is not something we would experience.”
But that doesn’t mean men feel depression or stress any less deeply than women. In fact, while men and women have similar depressive symptoms (think: fatigue and loss of…
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